"Drafts upon Heaven": Robert Southey, Tapas , and the "monstrous fables" of Hinduism and Romanism
"Drafts upon Heaven": Robert Southey, Tapas , and the "monstrous fables" of Hinduism and Romanism
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《天上的草稿》：罗伯特·骚塞、塔帕斯以及印度教和罗马教的“可怕的寓言”
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10.1080/10509585.2011.544932
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2011
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0.2
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Franklin M
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Franklin M
这篇文章考虑的是，在苦行实践产生的炽热能量与知识的危险力量之间的内在关系中，苏塞对吠陀概念的理解有多深。他带着一个学者的严肃虔敬，对严厉的苦行进行了细致的思考，其中夹杂着恐惧和迷恋。这种苦修和牺牲会产生一种“纯粹的”价值，可以在天堂兑换成银行，而且与奉献者的动机无关，这种想法引起了特别的反感。在创作《凯哈马的诅咒》（1810年）时，这被视为印度教特有的信条。随后，Southey对天主教妖魔化的渴望使他将其视为天主教会的一种公认的观点，并将印度教和罗马的苦行并列在令人厌恶的忏悔实践目录中。他在谴责印度教和天主教的苦行时表现出的活力与他写诗时的愉悦是矛盾的，这篇文章考察了他的政治、诗学、倾向和偏见之间复杂的相互作用。在威廉·琼斯等孟加拉东方学家研究的资料来源和类似物的背景下，分析了苏塞对印度教的再现；大都会和殖民地评论家的批评；以及其他浪漫主义时期作家的描述。
This article considers how far Southey understood the relationship inherent in the Vedic concept oftapasbetween the incandescent energy produced by ascetic practices and the dangerous power of knowledge. With a scholar’s austere devotion, he subjects the practice of severe and mortifying austerities to a detailed consideration which mingles horror and fascination. The idea that such penance and sacrifice accrue a “sterling” value, bankable in Heaven, and independent of the devotee’s motives, evokes especial revulsion. At the time of the composition ofThe Curse of Kehama(1810) this is viewed as a peculiarly Hindu tenet. Subsequently, Southey’s desire to demonize Catholicism leads him to regard it as a received opinion of the Catholic church, and to juxtapose Hindu and Romish austerities in catalogues of repulsive penitential practices. His vigor in denouncing Hindu and Catholic austerities was ambivalently matched by his delight in writing poetry about them, and the article examines the complex interaction of his politics, poetics, proclivities, and prejudices. Southey’s representations of Hinduism are analyzed against the background of sources and analogues in the research of William Jones and other Bengal Orientalists; the criticism of both metropolitan and colonial reviewers; and the delineations of other Romantic period writers.